Apple pulled the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 from shelves for a week over a patent fight with Masimo, right in the middle of holiday shopping. A quick rundown, plus why I'm not that broken up about the blood oxygen sensor.
Apple pulled the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 from its online store days before Christmas after losing a patent fight over the blood oxygen sensor, and the timing could not be worse for holiday shoppers.
Spotify's new Wrapped format turned a 30-second ritual into a 4-minute one, and my mom needed a phone call to convince her NameDrop wasn't some kind of surveillance plot.
Googles Gemini launch video looked like real-time magic. A closer read of Googles own blog post makes it a lot less magical, and that gap is the part nobody screenshotted.
Spotify Wrapped 2023 showed up with an AI DJ reading my stats back to me in a weirdly chipper voice, and I have some complaints, plus grudging respect.
A late-night Cyber Monday shopping spiral, an unnecessary label maker, and a brief aside on the OpenAI board chaos that just wrapped up.
A weekend recap of OpenAI's leadership chaos, focused on the strangest footnote of all: Emmett Shear's few days as interim CEO before Sam Altman came back.
SpaceX's second Starship test flight on Saturday made it to space before both stages were lost — notes from watching the livestream at 7am with bad coffee.
A weekend spent building custom GPTs after OpenAI's DevDay update, plus notes on the new GPT-4 Turbo pricing and what actually works once you sit down and try it.
After OpenAI's DevDay announcements this week, I tried feeding two years of this blog's archive into the new 128k-token GPT-4 Turbo just to see what would happen to my API bill.
While everyone's covering OpenAI's DevDay, I'm watching the Epic v. Google Play Store trial that started this week, and thinking about the 30% cut I used to pay Google on my own dumb little Android app.
Apple's new Space Black MacBook Pro finish has me thinking about my old plastic black MacBook from 2007, and whether this one will actually resist fingerprints like they claim.
